There were 45 qualified entries for the 11th week of the contest. No contestants picked all 10 games correctly, one picked nine games correctly, 20 picked eight games correctly and 24 picked seven games correctly. Twenty-six contestants did not pick at least seven games correctly in order to qualify for the drawing.

Week 11 winners of the Pigskin Picks T-shirt are Waunice Aldridge, of Evans, Shirlean Talley, of Martinez, and Shirley A. Smith, of Augusta.

Remember, remember the 5th of November. Guy Fawkes, with his conspiracy to blow up parliament, put my birthday on the map. Richard Nixon, with his election win and Watergate, made my birthday go down in history.

But with some people chanting, “Burn him, burn him,” and others saying, “We can’t spend all our grocery money on birthday candles,” it might be a day to forget. My husband, who referred to my birthday this week as Black Wednesday, teases me that it won’t be long before I do.